New LCD Shield using the Raspberry Pi Zero W

New Features

GPIO power for the Raspberry Pi (no need to connect the power to the pi directly)

Battery operated

New Power button to turn On/Off the device

Added holes for adding standoff to hold the Raspberry Pi

Upgraded the USB port from USB Mini to USB Micro

Previous Model

The previous version of this board uses the Electric Imp WIFI SD card as the brain to drive the LCD. It didn’t have any buttons to control the content on the LCD. It was a bit harder to get it set up compared to the Raspberry Pi.

Previous Version

What’s next?

Now I need to send the board to Oshpark.com to print a small batch. I also have to place an order of the BOOM file with all of the small components on the board. Then I have to manually solder all of these components and hope that the board work as designed. If everything is good, then I will send it to China to manufacture a small fully assemble batch.